[ale] teleport vs cd

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Mon Jun 27 22:40:28 EDT 2011


On 06/27/2011 10:14 PM, arxaaron wrote:

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>>
>> pushd and popd are pretty handy too. An alias with 'pd' that pushes or
>> pops directories when there is or isn't an argument is handy too.   
>> This
>> assumes you won't/can't just open another terminal.
> 
> I really like the thinking behind the teleport tp command.
> And it's all done as a bash script, so hard to get much more
> portable and easy to install than that!
> 
> As it stands in the Mac BSD environment I don't even have
> pushcd and popcd.  The default shell is bash though, so I'm
> anxious to give this cool little script a try!   I'm not finding any
> reports of people trying it on Mac yet -- my own experience
> is that the *nix command set isn't as deep as on Linux, so
> I'll report back or success or difficulties...
> 

pushd & popd - no "c" character.  Also, the CDPATH is a shell built-in
for bash & tcsh. I think pushd/popd are built-in too.


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